Ice melts on Winnégance Creek as smelt camps break through
Winnégance creek channel was clear of ice for first time in over 30 years on Friday per David A. Merry memory. Smelt camps near the lower landing broke through the ice and were rescued with difficulty. Community notes report a moving picture party for Mester Pinkham Jr. and a busy social week with meetings of Squaw club and the Winneganee Community club, illness updates, and local visits in Winneganee Bath area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David A. Merry
Winnégance’creek
Mester Thatcher Pinkham, Jr
Thatcher Pinkham
Bridge Street
Pinkham
Annette Williams
Esther Williams
Richard Hogan
Earl Brown
Hazel Brown
Squaw Club
Welter Morse
Robert P. Manson
George M. Eaton
Frank Perry
Harry F. Oliver
Oliver
Winneyance
Lloyd Perry
Charles Perry
City Hospital
Winneganee
Harry Oliver
Monday Club
Arthur Lemont
Abram Oliver
Danford MacDonald
Robert Manson
Sherman Morse
Almon Perry
Emery Footer
Lelia Oliver
Harry Williams
Emily Williams
Walter Morse
Danford McDonald
Hayden Conant
Bath Raises 537 For Christmas Seals
Bath sent 537 to the Maine Public Health Association for the Christmas Health Seal Sale. The gift exceeded prior towns and reflected generosity from Bath and Augusta central office. Later figures will publish each Sagadahoc town’s total, which surpassed previous years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Maine Public Health Association
Augusta
Sagadahoc
Obituary for Mrs. Belle Hodgkins of Bath
Mrs. Belle Hodgkins widow of George D. Hodgkins died Monday night in Chester Pennsylvania after five weeks of pneumonia. A Bath native, she was a daughter of Samuel and Ann McFadden and is survived by her daughter Mrs. Howard McMahon and sister Mrs. Fannie E. Hatch of Jersey City. The body will be brought to Bath and the funeral date will be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
Chester
Belle Hodgkins
George D. Hodgkins
Howard McMahon
Bath
Samuel
Ann McFadden
Fannie KE. Hatch
Jersey City
N. J
Death of Rev. E. Lewis Wall in Bath Area
Word reaches Bath of the death Monday of Rev. E. Lewis Wall aged 54. He served as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Dover Foxcroft and formerly led the Beacon Street Methodist church in Bath after a period of ill health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Lewis Wall
Bath
Methodist Episcopal Church
Dover-Foxcroft
Beacon Street Methodist Church
Wall
Community Notes From Phippsburg and Surrounds
Robert Feero of Bath visited his grandmother Mrs L J Feero over the weekend. Howard Bowker aided George Ingalls with ice cutting. Omar Perry received a surprise party Monday from a club including Mr and Mrs Frank Perry Mr and Mrs Ray Campbell Mr and Mrs Ernest Rogers and Mr and Mrs Omar Perry. Eric Carlson of Parker Head on a business trip to New York. James Edgar Perry works on his Meadow Brook Road wood lot. Harold Gray visits his Parker Head home. Mr and Mrs Ernest Rogers Pauline Rogers and Mrs Ray Campbell were in Bath Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Feero
Bath
L. J. Feero
Howard Bowker
George Ingalls
Omar Perry
Frank Perry
Ray Campbell
Ernest Rogers
Eric Carlson
Parker Head
New York
James Edgar Perry
Meadowbrook
Harold Gray
Pauline Rogers
Independent Readers Enjoy Their Paper
Readers send renewals from across the country and abroad for Bath Independent as the new year begins. Letters praise the paper, noting its weekly updates on Bath news and local employment, with wishes for continued travel and growth.
Smith Thompson wedding in Bath bonds Thompson and Smith families
Miss Kathryn A. Thompson and Clifford B. Smith were married at the bride’s home on Andrews Road in a one ring ceremony performed by Rev. David L. Wilson. The couple planned a wedding trip to New York Philadelphia Washington and South Easton before settling in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn A. Thompson
Luther S. Thompson
Clifford B. Smith
William C. Smith
South Easton
Mass
Andrews Road
Francis W. O’brien
Brooklyn
N. Y
David L. Wilson
Central Congregational Church
Bernice Carr
R. F. Pettingill
Bath
Mrs. Smith
New York
Pennsylvania
Washington, D. C
Poison dangers in pantry likened to loaded gun warns
The USDA special bulletin warns that poisons such as garden and domestic insecticides are a household danger like a loaded gun. It urges secure storage away from food, notes past arsenic incidents, and calls for labeling and segregated storage to prevent contamination of meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration
U. S. Department of Agriculture
P. B. Dunbar
Dunbar
Indiana
Los Angeles
Department of Agriculture
Magazines on File at Patten Library 1930 A List
The Patten Free Library maintains a 1930 magazines on file listing including Antique Atlantic Monthly American Review of Reviews American Magazine American Machinist Airway Age Gift Ambition Gift American Home American Issue Gift American Library Association Booklist Better Homes and Gardens Boston Transcript Building Age Boy's Life Bell Telephone Quarterly Gift Book Review Digest Current History Century Child Life Gift Christian Register Gift Christian Science Sentinel Gift Columbia Gift Commonweal Cumulative Book Index D.A.R. Magazine Gift Etude Flower Grower Farm Journal Gift Federation News Gift Good Housekeeping Harper's Magazine Harper's Bazaar How to Sell Gift Hygeia Gift International Studio Indian's Friend Gift Junior Home John Martin's Book Jewish Tribune Gift Literary Digest Ladies Home Journal Living Age London News Illus. Library Journal League of Nations Herald Motorship Mazdaznam Gift New York Times Nation Gift Nations Business National Geographic Gift National Republic Gift New England Historical & Genealogical Register Gift Open Road Ocean Ferry Gift Our Dumb Animals Gift Popular Science Monthly Popular Mechanics Pictorial Review Protectionist Gift Revue des Deux Mondes Rays from the Rose Cross Gift Readers Guide to Periodicals Review of Reviews Rotarian Gift Scribners Saturday Evening Post Scientific American St. Nicholas School Gift Shorthand Reporter Gift Specialty Salesman Gift Sun-up Time Gift Virginia Gift Woman's Home Companion World's Work Gift Young Crusader Gift Youth's Companion now American Boy Zion's Herald Gift
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patten Free Library
Antique
Atlantic Monthly
American Review of Reviews
American Magazine
American Machinist
Airway Age
Ambition
American Home
American Issue
American Library Association Booklist
Better Homes and Gardens
Boston Transcript
Building Age
Boy’s Life
Bell Telephone Quarterly
Book Review Digest
Current History
Century
Child Life
Country Gentleman
Children
Chiropractor
Christian Register
Christian Science Sentinel
Columbia
Commonweal
Cumulative Book Index
D.A.R. Magazine
Etude
Flower Grower
Farm Journal
Federation News
Good Housekeeping
Harper’s Magazine
Harper's Bazar
How To
Hygeia
International Studio
Indian’s Friend
Popular Mechanics
Pictorial Review
Protectionist
Revue Des Deux Mondes
Review of Reviews
Scribners
Saturday Evening Post
Scientific American
St. Nicholas
School
Sun-up
Time
Virginia
Woman's Home Companion
World's Work
Young Crusader
Youth's Companion
Zion's Herald
Bath Optometrist Attends Maine Convention
Dr Arthur I Stuart returned from Portland where he attended an all day session of the 30th annual Maine Association of Optometrists convention at the Eastland. He notes a splendid program and the need for multiple eye exams to properly prescribe lenses as nerve conditions can fluctuate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur I. Stuart
Portland
Maine Association of Optometrists
Eastland
Stuart
Dynamic Skinmetry Theory Highlighted by Dr Tait at Optometry Meeting
Dr Edwin Forbes Tait of Pennsylvania State College of Optometry presented his Dynamic Skinmetry theory to 150 members. He claimed it enables accurate diagnosing of sub normal persons and very young children for proper glasses fitting without subjective methods. Dr Julius Neumueller led an open forum on geometrical and physical optics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Forbes Tait
Pennsylvania State College of Optometry
Tait
Gestalt School of Psychology
Julius Neumueller
Pennsylvania Optometry College
Laboratory Equipment Returned to Augusta
The Davenport Memorial city laboratory is empty as equipment and utensils owned by the State were sent to Augusta this week under an order from State Health Commissioner Dr. Clarence F. Kendall. The move follows aldermen’s unanimous refusal to confirm the reappointment of Chester S. Kinesley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport Memorial
Augusta
State Commissioner of Health
Clarence F. Kendall
Chester S. Kinesley
Question on Appointment and Facility Retention
A full time health officer position exists and a successor to Mr Kingsley is pending appointment and confirmation. It remains unclear whether this material would be returned by a new appointee. The electrical refrigerating plant and sink are still in place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsley
Wesley Sorority January Social and Business Meeting
The Sorority of Wesley Methodist church hosted its January social at Mrs Ena Buckman McLean's home with about 18 members present. A New Year joke and gift tree paced the evening as committees were named to fund a yearly treasury with monthly duties. Santa Claus, via Miss Follet, distributed gifts amid jokes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Methodist Church
Ena Buckman McLean
Middle Street
McLean
Nellie Follet
Santa Claus
Miss Follet
St. Nicholas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Belle Hodgkins
van Loons- Sur
Phippsburg
Bath and
Vicinity
Bath Independent
Independent
Alice M. White
Burlington
Arrowsie
Georgetown
Five Islands
Anna Morse Geiger
Chicago
Brandon
Oregon
Sophia Rich Wilson
Swanton
Jameson Co
Rupert H. Baxter
Washington Street
Bruce H. M. White
Topsham
William B. Mussenden
Isabelle Carter
Charles S. Bradeen
Montreal
Elizabeth Brown
Herbert A. Dessau
Mr. Bradeen
Langdon T. Thaxter
Patten
Chevrolet
Delco-Lovejoy
Phaeton
Club Sedan
SPORT
Flint, Michigan
Atlantic Motor Company, Inc
Newcastle, Maine
O. M. McKown
Boothbay Harbor
Turner & Gilpatrick
Richmond, Me
Bath Optometrist
Wesley Sorority
The
Treasury
Robert Gordon
Hazel Hopkins
William Davis
John Gregory Murray
Sisters of Mercy
Sister Collette
St. Joseph's Convent
Lewiston
Collette
Sister of Mercy
Free Street
St. Xavier
Bangor
St. Mary’s
King’s Academy
By F. Leipziger
Caoing
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